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Two easy ways to block trackers and ads... without a firewall. Adding blockers to the hosts table still works with Chrome... hope they don't muck with that...
by dbg31415 4y ago
Two easy ways to block trackers and ads... without a firewall.
Adding blockers to the hosts table still works with Chrome... hope they don't muck with that...
https://github.com/StevenBlack/hosts https://github.com/StevenBlack/hosts
But if they do... there are always DNS solutions you can add to your Router.
https://nextdns.io/ https://nextdns.io/
I use Firefox, but even things like Windows spams ads at you if you let it. So many things have Google trackers built in too...
- celsoazevedo 4y agoYou can't use DNS/hosts to block ads on sites like YouTube because they use the same domain to load ads and videos. To block the ads you have to block the video itself. So while still useful, that's not really a replacement for browser extensions.
- howinteresting 4y agoThe problem with these approaches is that it's much harder to exclude individual sites that break.
- perryizgr8 4y agoThis comment reminds me of the crazy spammer who used to frequent Slashdot, always with a long comment about how to use hosts file and how it is superior to every other method of blocking content.